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...women who represent the opinions and comments from hundreds of women that she has recorded in her research. These conversations are a mixture of group therapy, lessons in ecology and New Age karma. Rosa likes to rub Tibetan monk singing bowls while talking about the "old patriarchal sexual equation"; Maya, 70 years old and going strong, shouts out '"Skin hunger!" to get her point across...
...play that ought to be heard more than seen. They are each strong and confident in their portrayals. Meekins, who seems to gain confidence as the show progresses, maintains Daryl's haughtiness without losing depth and understanding. Her character is helped by her recitation of a poem by Maya Angelou. Here Meekins manages to convey a hidden intensity that saves her character from becoming just another corporate executive senseless to the social implications of her work...
...name record company seemsintent on pushing someone with real talent andsomething to say. The dripping slide that opensthe album's second track, "Whipping Boy," an oldChris Darrow tune and one of two tunes that Harperdid not pen himself (the other being theinfectious "I'll Rise," to which poet Maya Angeloucontributed the Iyrics) sets the intensity at ahigh level that is maintained throughout thealbum. As Harper wails: "Well you can needme....But don't you lead me/I won't followyou/Liston here/ I don't fear/ I don't want to beyour/ Whipping boy" in a voice that is at oncerestrained...
Neolithic man, the Maya, life's origins -- at first glance, such subjects seem to have little in common with urgent reports datelined Hebron or Sarajevo. But make no mistake, the news value is profound. To cite this week's cover story, which Alexander edited: the conclusion of a recent scientific paper -- that Homo erectus wandered out of Africa nearly a million years earlier than was previously believed -- requires a change in our fundamental thinking about human evolution, and hence the way we understand ourselves. When the information is that important, Alexander muses, it doesn't matter "whether Homo erectus...
...felt sometimes that it was a 24-hour-a-day job," says Maya R. Jasanoff '96, who researched Wales and Southwest England. "Even when I wasn't researching, I was making plans for where I was going to stay next...